Talks
Recorded lectures Invited talks and seminars Selected conference talks
Recorded lectures
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Nov 2025
The Projectability of Meta-Inductive Arguments: The Case of Invariance Considerations. Radboud Center for Natural Philosophy Colloquium.
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Jan 2023
The general theory of relativity and scientific thought: Did we learn the right lesson? Cohn Institute Research Seminar, Tel-Aviv University.
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Oct 2022
Consensus, theoretical virtues, and interpretation: lessons from past debates. ISF workshop on the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Tel-Aviv University.
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Feb 2021
Symmetry Arguments, Methodological Equivalence and Relational Quantities. Oxford Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar.
Recorded lectures in Hebrew are listed on the עברית page.
Invited talks and seminars
- June 2026The Winding Road to Foundations: Measurements and Prejudices in the Quantum Century. Physics Department Colloquium, Bar-Ilan University
- June 2026Does the Similarity of Scientific Representations Necessarily Indicate Physical Similarity? Symposium in honor of Orly Shenker on the occasion of her retirement
- Nov 2025Invited panel discussant, Revisiting the History of Quantum Physics, WE Heraeus Symposium, The Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- Nov 2025Ignored because of Prejudice? On the late discovery of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. The second BOHR21 workshop, Utrecht University
- Aug 2024Invited commentary on Gauge and Metaphysics of Spacetime, Society for the Metaphysics of Science 9th Meeting
- July 2024How to choose a heuristic framework? The case of gauge invariance vs. gauge symmetry breaking. Invited keynote, Workshop on gauge-invariant approaches to (particle) physics and the ontological status of gauge symmetries, University of Graz
- July 2023Reconsidering the methodological lesson from general relativity (with James Read). Workshop on the foundations of physics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
- June 2022Symmetry Principles: Convention, Causation, or Both? 21st Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (invited, plenary)
- July 2021From Spacetime Symmetries to Gravitational Coupling (with James Read). Research Seminar of the Lichtenberg Group in History and Philosophy of Physics, University of Bonn
- May 2021Invited discussant, New Directions in the Foundations of Physics conference, Viterbo, Italy
- Nov 2020Formal or Material? Gauge and the Gravity-Electromagnetism Analogy (with Noah Stemeroff). Final Theory Program Online Seminar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- May 2020Symmetries in Physics: Between Convention and Causation. Conference on Causation in Science, Edelstein Center, HUJI (cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic)
- Nov 2018Constructive Theories vs. Principle-Theories from a Century's Perspective. Jerusalem-Budapest workshop I: Physicalism and Reduction, Edelstein Center, HUJI
- Feb 2017Best-Explanation Arguments in the Absolute-Relational Debate and the Reality of the Potentials. Workshop on Explanatory Reasoning in the Sciences, MCMP, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
- July 2015Reductionism and the Decoherence Explanation of Classicality. Workshop on philosophy of modern physics, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- May 2014Causation and Unification in Quantum Explanations. UNC-HUJI Workshop in the Philosophy of Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Selected conference talks
- Nov 2025Ignored because of prejudices? The late discovery of the Aharonov-Bohm effect from a historical-philosophical perspective. 24th Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science
- Sep 2025Is geometric characterization of spacetime conceptually dispensable? Tetrads, spinors, and supergravity. Eighth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, Hermann Minkowski Institute for Foundational Studies, Bulgaria
- Aug 2025Is geometry conceptually indispensable? Tetrads, spinors, and supergravity. Spacetime Matters Conference, Utrecht University
- July 2025Ignored because of Prejudice? A historical-philosophical perspective on the late discovery of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Annual Meeting of ÖPG and SPS, University of Vienna
- Sep 2024The Projectability of Meta-Inductive Arguments: The Case of Invariance Considerations. Methodological Transformations in Fundamental Physics, University of Wuppertal
- July 2023Realism and the Projectability of Symmetry Arguments. Symposium The Many Faces of Empiricism: Physical Theories Between Idealism and Realism, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, University of Bristol
- Apr 2023Spacetime functionalism and physical theorizing: the case of general relativity. Spacetime Functionalism Conference, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
- Mar 2023Covariance, Equivalence and Locality: Reconsidering the Methodological Lesson from General Relativity. Principles in Physics, University of Wuppertal (Epistemology of the LHC research unit)
- June 2022Does Theoretical Physics Presuppose Mathematical Realism? 25th Conference of the Israeli Philosophical Association
- Oct 2021Symmetries and Interactions: From Heuristics to Ontology. 20th European Conference on Foundations of Physics, Paris
- July 2021Spacetime Symmetries and Gravity: General Covariance vs. Local Symmetry Groups (with James Read). British Society for the Philosophy of Science 2021 Annual Conference, Kent, UK
- Feb 2020Miracle or Physical? Einstein versus Wigner on the Effectiveness of Mathematics. 23rd annual conference of the Israeli Philosophical Association, Tel-Aviv University
- Dec 2019The Gauge Principle: Physical Fields vs. Mathematical Ghosts. Second Chilean Conference on the Philosophy of Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
- Feb 2015Interactions as Interventions: The Causal Asymmetry in Physical Theories. 18th Conference of the Israeli Philosophical Association